Mr. Wizard

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From: http://www.mrwizardstudios.com/index.htm

It is with deep sadness that we regret to announce the passing of Don Herbert - the one and only "Mr. Wizard". Don lost his battle with cancer today, June 12, 2007, at 9 AM Pacific Daylight Time - slightly more than one month shy

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Aww, I loved his show when I was little. Some of them are still clear in my memory... like when he had a kid retrieve an object from the bottom of a full aquarium without getting his arm wet by sprinkling a certain powder on the surface... and when he illustrated the body's inability to hold a knife perfectly still in the air by bending a paper clip into a V so it straddled the knife and, with its ends touching a table, walked right off the end of the knife... and when he showed how a board can roll smoothly over two non-circular logs that were more like rounded triangles, because the diameter is the same at any angle through the center, keeping the board the same height above the ground as it rolls.

That man sure knew how to engage kids' minds. :)